[Proj] PROJ 4.6.1 RC1

[Richard didier]

Le Mercredi 23 Juillet 2008 13:35, Richard didier a écrit :
> Le Mercredi 23 Juillet 2008 06:08, Frank Warmerdam a écrit :
> > Gerald I. Evenden wrote:
> > > On Monday 21 July 2008 9:41:08 pm Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > >>   o Added the glabsgm (Gauss Laborde / Sphere Geometric Mean)
> > >> projection
> > >
> > > Excuse me for forgetfulness.  This is really the Gauss-Schreiber
> > > projection that we went over a few months ago.  Aka +proj=stmerc
> >
> > Gerald,
> >
> > I'm going to hold back on the 4.6.1 release till this can be worked out.
> > There is no point in letting this into widespread use with different
> > names from libproj4.  I've created a ticket for the issue and assigned it
> > to Richard Didier:
> >
> >    http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ticket/8
> >
> > Richard Didier can bring PROJ.4 into line with libproj4, or provide an
> > explanation for why there is a difference.  I haven't heard from Richard
> > on other points in a couple days so he may be on vacation.
>
> All,
>
> I am not in vacation (but will be in few days), but still working on
> various subjects including PROJ.4, GDAL, PROJ4JS, OpenLayers, ...
>
> I have replied to the ticket and await for a decision : the change is quite
> heavy on our side (not so on PROJ.4 side) cause our CRS catalogues (PROJ.4,
> PROJ4JS, ISO, etc ...) rely on 'glabsgm'. So, I will have, after changing
> if accepted PROJ.4 to modify them all.
>

All,

I updated PROJ.4 trunk with gstmerc (Gauss-Schreiber Transverse Mercator) - 
See above ticket for the long discussion with Gerald.

> > Thanks for the review!
> >
> > Best regards,
>
> All the best,
>
> didier

Regards,

didier
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